Colleges Hard-Pressed to Explain Variations in Price

By Eric Kelderman

To the casual observer, the University of Connecticut at Storrs
and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill look a lot
alike.

Both are public flagship institutions, research universities
that enroll about the same number of undergraduates (around
18,000), and both have popular and successful basketball teams for
men and women.

Notably, they get roughly the same amount of money from their
respective state legislatures, according to the most recent
federal